HSA# 520 - CAMERON (BROWNSVILLE), TX-WILLACY, TX

HSA Profiles

Mortality Rates

Health-Care Providers

Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization

HMOs and HMO Membership

Demographics

Income, Education and Employment

Age-Adjusted Mortality per 100,000 Population, 1996-98
  CHD Stroke AMI CHF
Overall 165.5 48.9 80.7 9.8
Whites 166.3 49.0 81.0 9.9
Blacks 151.7* 89.5* 0.0* 0.0*
Males 219.1 55.8 107.3 8.9
Females 121.1 42.9 58.4 10.3
White Males 220.5 56.0 107.6 9.0
White Females 121.5 42.9 58.8 10.4
Black Males 50.8* 200.3* 0.0* 0.0*
Black Females 213.5* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 382
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 333
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 49
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 134
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 25
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 12
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 9
Registered Nurses (1990) 969
Registered Dieticians (1990) 66

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 5
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 3
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 3
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 3
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 4
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 5
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 2
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 5
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 4
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 43,903
Total beds (1999) 832
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 8
Inpatient days (1999) 203,644
Outpatient visits (1999) 350,442
Emergency Department visits (1999) 83,054

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 6 2,072
Traditional HMOs (1998) 0 0
IPA HMOs (1998) 4 2,064
Other HMOs (1998) 2 8

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 348,781 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 47,893 13.7
Hispanic Whites (1999) 297,380 85.3
Blacks (1999) 1,418 0.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 713 0.2
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 1,377 0.4
Total Hispanics (1999) 298,959 85.7

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 13,665
Avg median household income (1997) 21,525
Persons in poverty (1997) 122,558
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 10
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 37
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 12

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